Word: mule
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...time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head of a mule standing next to him, and stopped only when it hit a pack of cigarettes in a sergeant's pocket...
...southwestern and central Nebraska. Most of Colorado and New Mexico got little if any rain. Even the newly dampened land would need more rain to insure the crops that were being so blithely planted this week. "But," the Amarillo Daily News reported, "the people are grinning like a mule eating cactus...
...maintained a small-screen corporation to fall back on, just in case CinemaScope should prove to be a lumpy bed. It was headed by Leonard Goldstein (TIME. April 28. 1952), who made millions for Universal-International with low-budget pictures like Ma and Pa Kettle and Francis, the talking mule. Now that the wide-screen boom is, in fact, shaking down to competitive normalcy, Goldstein may be worth his weight in gold...
...came down from the mountains near Santiago to report that they had a "mummy" to sell. They had come upon it, they said, while rooting about in a rock-walled enclosure atop 17,712-ft. El Plomo, where one of them had found some silver objects years ago. The mule drivers offered the body to the Museum of Natural History, but demanded 80,000 pesos ($728) for their find. And all that the government gives the museum each year for purchase and preservation of specimens is 35,000 pesos...
...Pocket. But two young students of Professor Richard P. Schaedel, Yale-bred anthropologist at the University of Chile, hurried over and heard the mule drivers' story. Fired with enthusiasm, they offered everything in their pockets plus the rest of their month's salaries-45,000 pesos in all-for the body. The mule drivers agreed, and led the students up to the point, 9,800 ft. high, where they had reburied their find. The body, well preserved and wrapped in cloth, looked old indeed, and the students rushed it by pickup truck to Santiago. There the students took...